● Creative Climate Leadership

Julie's Bicycle (UK)

Kulturno izobrazevalno drustvo PiNA (SI), On The Move (BE), Centar Za Internacionalnu Kulturnusaradnju Krug (ME), Nordkolleg Rendsburg/Ars Baltica (DE), EXIT Foundation (RS), COAL (FR)

State of the art

In December 2015, the Paris Agreement passed at COP21, but the potential of the cultural sector in Europe to play a leading part in the unfolding transition remained largely untapped. Good intentions were often not matched by actions. Individual artists and cultural practitioners working to make change lacked a support network to develop their ecological ideas and practice.

Description of the project

Creative Climate Leadership (CCL) responded to a need for tailored leadership development and movement-building for artists, creative leaders, cultural policymakers, and development professionals to prompt them to share knowledge and collaboratively lead systemic change inside and outside organisations. Hereby they contributed to responding to a changing environment, effectively influencing cultural shifts in values and behaviour across society, and connecting an insufficiently recognised movement of creative climate change-makers working internationally. CCL also explored the potential of arts and culture as vectors for climate and environmental action, and how these might be integrated in future ECOC programmes, through a policy lab.

The climate and ecological crisis is a global issue that manifests locally, and requires locally rooted responses that are in turn globally networked.

Creative Europe’s support

Creative Europe - Culture allowed to sow the seeds of a connected network of ecological change-makers working across the arts and cultural community in Europe, who are making local impact and provoking practical ripple effects, and are now ready to bring their skills and creativity to the EU Green Deal.

Beyond Environmental Sustainability

CCL participants were given the tools to interpret “creative climate leadership” through a wide lens of practice, including the role of the arts in shaping public space and the commons, new ecological business models and new connections between art, climate, justice and migration.

Contact

www.creativeclimateleadership.com Creative Europe Project Results